telegraph (magazine)
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| Headquarters | Berlin |
| First edition | 1989 |
| editor | Environment library |
| Web link | www.telegraph.cc |
| ISSN (print) | 0863-3991 |
The telegraph is a magazine that has its origins in the GDR opposition in the late 1980s.
history
The GDR opposition magazine Umweltblätter , published since 1987, was renamed telegraph in 1989 . The environmental sheets were published in samizdat by the East Berlin environmental library in the semi-legal room of the Evangelical Church. The environmental library in the Zion community was part of the grassroots peace, environmental and third world movement in the GDR. In the environmental library several young people around the libertarian Wolfgang Rüddenklau tried to counter the state information monopoly with their own critical reporting with the environmental papers. Topics taboo in the GDR were addressed, suppressed information and news were disseminated, and the various opposition groups in the GDR were given a platform for discussion.
Due to the increased volume of information since the beginning of the peaceful revolution in September 1989, the bi-monthly publication cycle of the environmental papers turned out to be too cumbersome. A faster medium had to be produced. The editors of the environmental papers called on friends from the samizdat papers Friedrichsfelder Feuermelder, Grenzfall , and Antifa-Infoblatt-Ostberlin to cooperate. That was the birth of the telegraph. The number 1 appeared on October 10, 1989, the annual numbering of the environmental papers was continued in it. Until the end of the upheaval in the GDR, the telegraph was one of the few independent reporters.
From 1989 to 1996 the telegraph appeared regularly and critically documented the transition from one system to another. In May 1997 there was a financial crisis. The telegraph came out with an emergency issue urging readers to ultimately show solidarity with the magazine. As a result, several new members joined the editorial collective at the beginning of 1998 and this developed a new newspaper concept. The telegraph appears as an "East German magazine".
Editors and authors
The editorial team consists of:
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Her well-known authors include a.
See also
literature
- Bernd Drücke : Between a desk and a street battle? Anarchism and Libertarian Press in East and West Germany . Ulm: Verlag Klemm & Oelschläger , 1998. ISBN 3-932577-05-1 (For the history of telegraph and environmental papers, see in particular pp. 104–127.)
Web links
- telegraph
- The magazine's blog
- Berlin Environmental Library , online at ddr-wissen.de
- Environment library printing press , online at ddr-museum.de
- From the GDR opposition newspaper to the medium of the counter-public in the FRG. ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Portrait of the magazine Umweltblätter / telegraph , online at polwiss.fu-berlin.de
- Bernd Drücke: Anarchy in East Germany. Without environmental papers and the telegraph, the turning point in 1989 would not have come about , online at graswurzel.net